This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by psa188@juno.com. /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ Share the spirit with a gift from Starbucks. Our coffee brewers & espresso machines at special holiday prices. http://www.starbucks.com/shop/subcategory.asp?category_name=Sale/Clearance&ci=274&cookie_test=1 \----------------------------------------------------------/ Another Baggage First at the Denver Airport? January 20, 2002 By JULIE DUNN Long before the Denver International Airport opened for business six years ago, the developers were promoting its $193 million baggage system, which was intended to speed up baggage handling. But glitches in it delayed the airport's opening by more than a year - the system was misrouting luggage, not to mention chewing up and mangling suitcases. Now the airport is looking to become the first in the country to test a high-technology luggage-screening device intended to spot bombs and explosives. It was developed by the Heimann Systems Group, based in Wiesbaden, Germany, for the Transportation Department. Heimann is part of the Rheinmetall Group. The department is expected to decide next month whether to test the device in Denver or at the Federal Aviation Administration testing center in Atlantic City. Heimann's new screener "can tell the difference between explosives and chocolate," said Bruce Baumgartner, manager of the Denver airport. He said it could screen 1,500 bags an hour, about twice as many as current equipment at the airport. Mr. Baumgartner said that if Denver was chosen, the Transportation Department would cover the estimated $20 million in equipment costs and $30 million for revamping the airport's baggage-handling system to accommodate the new screeners. As of Dec. 31 this year, federal rules will require all bags to pass through explosive detection machines. Would the new device resurrect old problems in the Denver baggage system, which handles 30 million pieces of luggage a year? "This should not effect the existing system," Mr. Baumgartner said. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/business/yourmoney/20BDIG.html?ex=1012540905&ei=1&en=28fa978be0d4f895 HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact Alyson Racer at alyson@nytimes.com or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help@nytimes.com. Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company